Marcus slease

About Me

I am a native of Portadown, N. Ireland. Moved to america at the age of twelve. Las Vegas. Then Utah, North Carolina, Seattle.

Then six years traveling and teaching English as a foreign language in South Korea, Turkey, Poland.

My American alien card expired.

I currently live in London and teach English as a foreign language.

A book, The House of Zabka, is forthcoming in 2013 from Deathless Press. Genre blending.

The House of Zabka is a bizarro/fairy tale story of elves who live in the house of Zabka, a girl named named Carrie and her sausage dog, a plastic dragon (you can send a text message to make it breathe fire), a secret operation to install mesh in the groin, an invasion of frogs, grumpy gorale from Zakopane, a glass lake, a village hit called latto latto.

The action happens in THE FORBIDDEN ZONE of Katowice, southern Poland.

My latest book of poetry over here at Poor Claudia:

http://www.poorclaudia.org/details_slease.php

Some WRITING online:

I LEFT MY HEART IN SF AT THOUGHT CATALOG:

http://thoughtcatalog.com/2012/i-left-my-heart-in-sf/

THE COWS SAID MU AT THOUGHT CATALOG:

http://thoughtcatalog.com/2012/the-cows-said-mu/

Białooka AT METAZEN

http://www.metazen.ca/?p=11167

A RAILROAD TIE IS CALLED A SLEEPER AT METAZEN:

http://www.metazen.ca/?p=11153

A FLASH PLAY OVER AT EVERYDAY GENIUS:

http://www.everyday-genius.com/2011/06/marcus-slease.html

MEN OF STICKS AND MUD OVER AT HOUSEFIRE BOOKS:

http://housefirebooks.com/men-of-sticks-and-mud-poetry-marcus-slease/

TANGLING LLAMAS ON THE TRESSES OF THE SUN OVER AT POOR CLAUDIA:

http://www.poorclaudia.org/crush_slease.php

Why do you write?

To go out of my mind.

Any favorite authors? Books?

Aimee Bender

Shane Jones

William Burroughs

Jack kerouac

Cameron Piece (of lost in Cat Brain Land)

Flannery O'Connor

Kenneth Koch (of red robbins fame)

George Saunders

Bernadette Mayer

Bradley Sands

mr eraserhead (of lynchian fame)

eXistenZ (of Cronenberg fame)

Stalker (of Andrei Tarkovsky and the brothers who wrote Roadside picnic fame)

colin winnette

J Bradley

Mike Young

Kathy Acker

Kurt Vonnegut

Etgar Karet

Richard Brautigan

Lukas Tomin

Frank O Hara

Sommer Browning

xTx

Blake Butler

Hannah Weiner

meghan lamb

tao lin

Eileen Myles

Megan Lent

Frank Hinton

Lydia Davis

Camus

Matt Bell

J.A. Tyler

Megan Boyle

Sam Pink

Haruki Murakami